Harry Rickards

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Harry Rickards ()[] was an American "comic vocalist", circus performer and impresario

Biography

venues operated by Harry Rickards, an influential impresario whose Tivoli.

in 1900 he leased the Bijou Theatre in Australia to present, inter alia, the New Tivoli Minstrel and Speciality Company

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Performances as comic vocalist

The Rickards' Combination

In Australia it was billed as The Rickards' London Star Comique Combination during a tour in 1873[1]

This name is given to an act consisting of "The Flying Trapeze, Miraculous Dives, Daring Flights" presented by the "Great Rickards", Lottie D'Aste, Katrine Angellian and Frank Angellian, presented on 27 October 1877 in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as an after performance to Waiting for the Verdict, or Falsely Accused (Hazlewood) and a ballad by Miss Wynne.


Sources

The Sydney Morning Herald (25 August, 1873)[2] D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

The Age, 8 September, 1900[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.353, 362, 366, 394

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